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Just been looking at the skybox. What a pile of crap! The moon is too small, and those apparent "fully real time" objects in the sky are clearly just a few star background .jpg files.

Oh, is that twinkling effect the stars have actually just due to lossy compression? People have spent years levelling the astronomy skill, thinking that it was because their telescope crafting level was too low :(

That source code is available (you're talking about that written in DNA++ language, right?), but it's hard to translate.

While in sane programming languages you have if, while, case, etc. instructions and you can use methods and classes etc. that is easy to understand, in DNA++ you have only stream of A, C, T and G letters without any comments. It's so hard to understand what's is really happening here. Is very hard to code in DNA++. Also you need high-end gear (that only some scientific labs can afford) to compile that code.

And if you're talking about modding physics - everything is a global constant here and changing values of some of this constants would change server to lifeless mess. :x

Pretty good game so far, graphics are nice and incidentals such as the 'food' and 'sex' mini games are cool... But on my local server it seems like about 1% of users are hoarding 99% of the gold. I haven't seen an economic Sim this open to abuse since Eve.

And if the dev's are reading this... a small minority are flaming about how the rest of us should play, time for the banhammer maybe?

Just been looking at the skybox. What a pile of crap! The moon is too small, and those apparent "fully real time" objects in the sky are clearly just a few star background .jpg files.

When you snipe the moon it doesn't output "Ouch!" to the screen and you can't change the size of it this way. Don't tell me you have to edit the .ini file to change this like in a badly ported console game.

Oh, is that twinkling effect the stars have actually just due to lossy compression? People have spent years levelling the astronomy skill, thinking that it was because their telescope crafting level was too low :(

Guess what happens when you reach maximum astronomy level and unlocked the adaptive optics skill tree? Most of the time you get another noisy, black image with bright dots on it. Sometimes, however, you can see a nebula or a planet.
I guess by making the astronomy skill and the equipment so expensive they want to save bandwidth. Imagine what would happen if everybody wants to stream that high-resolution skybox.

Also: I recently found out, that during that forced disconnect at night (mostly), it runs a weird 'dream' version. Sometimes I can alt-tab in. I think it's a dev-tool. They are testing some strange stuff like flying persons and endless corridors. I'd like to get permanent access, but no luck so far. Any advice on how to get access? And somebody should patch the controls. They don't work reliably.

Guess what happens when you reach maximum astronomy level and unlocked the adaptive optics skill tree? Most of the time you get another noisy, black image with bright dots on it. Sometimes, however, you can see a nebula or a planet.
I guess by making the astronomy skill and the equipment so expensive they want to save bandwidth. Imagine what would happen if everybody wants to stream that high-resolution skybox.

Also: I recently found out, that during that forced disconnect at night (mostly), it runs a weird 'dream' version. Sometimes I can alt-tab in. I think it's a dev-tool. They are testing some strange stuff like flying persons and endless corridors. I'd like to get permanent access, but no luck so far. Any advice on how to get access? And somebody should patch the controls. They don't work reliably.

Yeah, that's the Lucid Dreaming unlockable content... You have to complete some quests each day to get more regular acces, such as writing down what you saw during those "dream" videos or so. Boring. I want the unlockable content, not those stupid quests! >.<